“that the biggest part of the struggle as a child is about trying to believe you are not the monster you are… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
“my tribe: raped children, working-class girls, and those raised to both love and hate their own as I had been.” — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
“Yes, somewhere inside me there is a child always eleven years old, a girlchild who holds the world responsible for all the… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something different. Men eat themselves up believing they have to be the thing… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
If I could have found what I needed at thirteen, I would not have lost so much of my life chasing vindication… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
My heart broke all over again. I wanted my life back, my mama, but I knew I would never have that. The… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
“It is so hard to be a girl and want what you have never had. To be a child and want what… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
“You need to know that you are a real person, that this thing happening to you is not something you are making… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
My son, Wolf, was born when I was past 40 and the author of a best-selling novel. That means he has grown… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
“that the biggest part of the struggle as a child is about trying to believe you are not the monster you are… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
And of course these days I feel like there is a nation of us - displaced southerners and children of the working… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
she got a reputation for an easy smile and a sharp tongue, and using one to balance the other, she seemed friendly but distant — Dorothy Allison Copy Share
“Simple answers, reductionist politics, are the most prone to compromise, to saying we’re addressing the essential issue and all that other stuff can slide.… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share
People don't do right because of the fear of God or love of him. You do right because the world doesn't make sense if… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share
“I had to say to her that it isn’t just men, and it isn’t just men “like that.” I had to talk to her… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share
“Entitlement, I have told them, is a matter of feeling like we rather than they.” — Dorothy Allison Copy Share
“Love was something I would not have to worry about - the whole mystery of love, heartbreak songs, and family legends. Women who pined,… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share
“Behind the story I tell is the one I don't. Behind the story you hear is the one I wish I could make you… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share
Hunger makes you restless. you dream about food - not just any food, but perfect food, the best food, magical meals, famous and awe-inspiring,… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share
I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement. It gave me a vision that I could do something different,… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share
People begin to write in order to create what they have not found and, a little bit, to give something back. — Dorothy Allison Copy Share
The hardest thing to teach young writers is that it's wonderful to tell your truth. And that's what you should do. But it damn… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share
“The horror of class stratification, racism, and prejudice is that some people begin to believe that the security of their families and communities depends… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share
I did not begin with craft, I began with strong feelings and worked toward craft. — Dorothy Allison Copy Share
When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels. My sister became unmarried and pregnant during high… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share
